When you think about someone texting and driving, who comes to mind? A teenager? If you said yes, you're wrong.

A survey conducted by AT&T as a part of the "It Can Wait" campaign found that 98% of adults that they surveyed admitted that they texted while driving. In contrast, 48% of teenagers said they texted while driving.

The AT&T study also found that 60% of adults surveyed said that they didn't text while they were behind the wheel three years ago.

What's going on with drivers in America? Is it smartphones? Or are we becoming more reckless drivers?

According to the Center for Disease Control, nine people are killed every day due to distracted driving and more than 1,060 are injured.

Michigan Radio's Cynthia Canty spoke with Paul Green. Green is a research professor in the Driver Interface Group at the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute.

“It seems like a feedback loop and it happens quite frequently. We think it’s related to social attention- imagine you have attention as a limited resource and you’re dividing it between those people in your real space and those people in your virtual networks,” said Kruger.